Tag: evolution
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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August 23, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
Individually, we are subjects/objects of natural, successful evolution, outcomes of symbiosis. Symbiosis is a process of reason even as reason is a process of symbiosis; they are end/means to each . . . more
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September 30, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
As an involved observer I've come to believe that institutional education like institutional food is commercial, bland and unhealthy. Kids deserve better than canned education and . . . more
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August 29, 2006 12:14 PM EDT --
From experience we know we are of many minds, some that pursue the nobler purposes of consciousness and some that succumb to lesser ones. Institutions like individuals labor under the . . . more
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October 07, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
Deep down, evolution and devolution are wave/particle dance, the rhythmic process of creation unfolding—sometimes pretty and sometimes…not so pretty—but always awesome. . . . more
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November 30, 2006 05:04 PM EST --
“…as we survey the principle features of [the] post-Einsteinian world…step by step we [move] into the Hebrew prophet’s eschatological world. A universe bound fast to grim, timeless . . . more
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January 03, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
If the many crises of our time can be conflated into a single phrase it is the phrase “crisis of conscience”. Because of universal ecological/environmental degradations, the global . . . more
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July 21, 2006 01:24 AM EDT --
We are emergent people embedded in patterns of the transformational cosmos and evolving life. We are not today what we were yesterday and we are not tomorrow what we are today. The hopefulness . . . more
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September 03, 2006 06:09 AM EDT --
All religious consciousness like all life emerges from common ground. By reason of evolving commonalities, good faith emergence is enabled. Einstein's mind-expanding intuition that . . . more
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September 20, 2007 05:21 AM EDT --
The political/ religious/ cultural paradigm of a discredited worldview no longer works in a new world order. Case in point is the static worldview (SWV) and the evolutionary worldview (EWV).
It is the . . . more
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May 31, 2006 04:22 AM EDT --
6. God/Land-Woman/Man Trust
Old Covenant Scripture is a story about infidelity and woe, and about fidelity and weal. Prophet after prophet is rejected because (s)he confronts the inauthenticity . . . more
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November 22, 2006 05:08 AM EST --
In re: overpopulation, moral proportionality and Original Sin
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council arrived at an overwhelming consensus with respect to moral choice and the . . . more
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June 14, 2006 03:04 AM EDT --
Conscience Seeking Expression
I come from the Roman Catholic Tradition of Faith, but I am not imprisoned by the Roman Tradition. I am a Catholic not only in the sense of being hearer . . . more
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September 20, 2006 02:38 AM EDT --
If she's said it once she's said it a thousand times, the incomparable value of learning! At age 75 my wife Felicitas is a retired teacher known to hundreds of her students as . . . more
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July 11, 2006 04:31 AM EDT --
From personal experience we know that life originates within and is sustained in the continuum of cosmic energy. At the same time we experience . . . more
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September 17, 2006 07:03 PM EDT --
The ambivalent experience of transformation burdens even the gradual unfolding of life's mysteries. Experiences of good and evil implicate the unfolding of the mystery and the plan of nature. Natural . . . more
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October 03, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
The arrogance of absolutism leads to all manner of perversion. Revelations about people in the US Government now boiling to the surface are not unprecedented. The perversity of absolutism, . . . more
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December 09, 2006 11:33 AM EST --
QUESTION Based on universal understandings of cosmic origin and evolution, what faith convictions (certitude) and rational conclusions can all religions and civilizations accept and advance in . . . more
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December 16, 2006 07:05 AM EST --
At the beginning of the book RELIGION & CIVILITY (Sylvester L Steffen, 2004, third book of the Second Enlightenment Trilogy) is an Overview with 10 axioms (modified below), corollaries that derive . . . more
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January 31, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Changing Worldview, Changing Dogma
Worldview is a personally and socially developed consciousness. Personal consciousness dictates personal dogmas, the package of beliefs that inform personal . . . more
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February 06, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
In the pursuit of “truth”, Enlightenment and Religion come together. Universal (catholic) Religion is a “universal call” - vocation. The universal “call” for every person, . . . more
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